The Best of Big Download: March 1-7

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It’s been an incredibly busy and surprising week for PC games — and GDC hasn’t even started yet! Let’s check out what’s been happening in the last seven days, shall we:
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Star Trek Online review: We give our final verdict to Cryptic’s latest MMO effort.
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Hey, you got your BioShock in my Doom 2!

Professional level designer J.P. LeBreton’s creativity can’t just be contained by the BioShock franchise which his work has appeared in for the last three years. So, he recently exercised his craft in a fairly peculiar way — by designing a Doom 2 map modeled after the two areas on which he served as lead designer [...]

Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 22 – Feb. 28: Oscar primer edition

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If you’ve been avidly following the Hollywood scuttlebutt this past week, you’ve probably heard of an event which is unfolding at this very moment: The 82nd Annual Academy Awards. We know how badly you guys want to be able to talk about the Oscars whilst chatting over your place of business’ [...]

First screens from Fallout: New Vegas surface, feature glorious beards

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Around these parts, we’re all avid supporters of a thick, lustrous beard. Though our tastes for the gaming industries various genres differ greatly, we can all get behind any game so long as it includes characters with copious amounts of facial hair. For this reason alone, a recent batch of screenshots has [...]

Little King’s Story, Hotel Dusk developer Cing files for bankruptcy

Well, this is about as far from how we wanted to start out the week as humanly possible — a Japanese news site called Data-Max reports that Cing, developer of precious gems such as Hotel Dusk and Little King’s Story, has filed for bankruptcy, suffering liabilities of 256 million yen.
It really sucks when a developer [...]